Ezekiel Chapter 22    

¹Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
  ²“You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
  ³You are to say: This is what the Lord Yahweh says: A city that sheds blood in the middle of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
  ⁴You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols that you have made, and you have caused your days to draw near and have come even to your years. Therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the countries.
  ⁵Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one and full of tumult.
 

⁶Behold, the rulers of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
  ⁷In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  ⁸You have despised my holy things and have profaned my Sabbaths.
  ⁹Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood, and in you they have eaten on the mountains; in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
  ¹⁰In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
  ¹¹One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
  ¹²In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.
 

¹³Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain that you have made and at your blood that has been in the midst of you.
  ¹⁴Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
  ¹⁵I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
  ¹⁶You will be defiled by your own doings in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”
 

¹⁷The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
  ¹⁸“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the middle of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
  ¹⁹Therefore this is what the Lord Yahweh says: Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.
  ²⁰As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the middle of the furnace to blow the fire on it, to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you.
  ²¹Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in its middle.
  ²²As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in its middle; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.”
 

²³The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
  ²⁴“Son of man, tell her: You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.
  ²⁵There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst.
  ²⁶Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
 

²⁷Her leaders in its midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
  ²⁸Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions and divining lies to them, saying, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.
  ²⁹The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery, yes, they have troubled the poor and needy and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
  ³⁰I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
  ³¹Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. Their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.”